Best of Artemis, week ending 19th January 2014

20th January 2014 - Author: Artemis

Here are the ten most popular news articles, week ending 19th January 2014, on catastrophe bonds, reinsurance capital and related risk transfer topics, from the last seven days on Artemis. To ensure you never miss a thing subscribe to the weekly Artemis email newsletter updates. Top ten most viewed articles on Artemis.bm, week ending 19th January 2014:

2013 a ground-breaking 12 months for ILS: Aon BenfieldAon Benfield Securities, the capital market, catastrophe bond and insurance-linked securities (ILS) arm of reinsurance broker Aon saw 2013 as a ground-breaking year for the ILS market, as demand from investors helped the market grow to record size.

Florida Cat Fund looks to cat bonds & collateralized reinsurance At an insurance summit held last week in Orlando, Jack Nicholson the COO of the Florida Hurricane Catastrophe Fund said that it is seeking approval to buy up to $1.5 billion of private reinsurance, and favors using catastrophe bonds and collateralized reinsurance.

Plenum launches leveraged cat bond strategy, new share classesZurich based catastrophe bond investment manager Plenum Investments is expanding its reach with the launch of a higher return leveraged cat bond investment strategy as well as new institutional and trailer fee clean retail share classes for the Plenum Cat Bond Fund.